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S 751 111th Congress Senate

Fair Elections Revenue Act of 2009

Official title: A bill to establish a revenue source for fair elections financing of Senate campaigns by providing an excise tax on amounts paid pursuant to contracts with the United States Government.

Introduced: March 31, 2009 Introduced by: Durbin, Richard J. Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
Taxation Elections, voting, political campaign regulationGovernment trust fundsPublic contracts and procurementSales and excise taxesSenate
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Mar 31, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4074)
Mar 31, 2009
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4073-4074)
Mar 31, 2009
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action March 31, 2009

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4074)

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Fair Elections Revenue Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on payments made pursuant to a U.S. government contract to any person which is not a state or local government or a foreign nation and has contracts with the U.S. government in excess of $10 million. Sets the rate of such tax at 0.50% of amounts paid under any such contract and limits the aggregate annual amount of tax imposed each year to not more than $500,000.

Expresses the sense of the Senate that the tax revenues raised by this Act be used for the financing of a Fair Elections Fund and the public financing of Senate elections.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 751: Fair Elections Revenue Act of 2009. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-751/
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"S. 751: Fair Elections Revenue Act of 2009." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-751/.
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S. 751, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-751/.
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